Environmental advocates and a former Department of Natural Resources secretary are critical of a "strategic realignment effort" that would reorganize the DNR's internal structure. One particularly controversial part of the plan would involve a change to the agency's watershed management team.

​ Having trouble identifying that warbler in the backyard singing from the top branch? There’s an app for that. With more than 50 species in the United States and Canada, warblers represent one of the largest bird families on the continent. With their different sizes, colors and calls, they’re also...

More than 22,000 Wisconsin high school students received college credit at state technical colleges in 2014 — a notable increase from the 13,000 students who received credit within the tech school system in 2010.

State Department of Transportation officials are hoping that increased penalties for repeated texting-while-driving offenses in the state of Minnesota will deter drivers in Wisconsin from using their phones on the road as well.

Governor Walker recently suggested he'd make big changes to the EPA as President of the United States, including the shifting of responsibilities to states. A reporter breaks down what we know about Walker's proposal.

Local residents turned out at a Department of Natural Resources hearing Tuesday to express concerns about a proposed 900-cow dairy farm in Kewaunee County. No one spoke on the record in favor of the expansion of the Augustian Farm. Instead, people talked about contaminated wells. Joe Musial owns land along...

There’s nothing immediately special about U.S. Route 18 . Beginning in downtown Milwaukee, it cuts across the bottom of Wisconsin in an almost straight-line east to west. But overlay the state’s political landscape and it quickly becomes a cross section of one the nation’s most reliable political patterns of the...

While Attorney General Brad Schimel spoke out against a last-minute proposal from legislators to gut the state's open records laws, he says he's sympathetic to the desire to keep early drafting materials of legislation out of the public record.

As technology improves and prices drop, drones are quickly becoming a part of life in Wisconsin. Moreover, they're not just for hobbyists: the unmanned aerial vehicles have found their way into everything from farm fields to law enforcement.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Minority Leader Peter Barca confirmed Tuesday morning that the votes were there to pass a financing package for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena without the need to make any changes to the plan.